Arthur Besse
cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions
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also it’s from the spammer’s “staging” instance, so the payload is a URL with a staging hostname which doesn’t even resolve 🙄
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Someone just released 𝐀𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐫: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐢𝐫𝐛𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 movie, before it's official October release on Paramount+English
30·3 days agotwitter (via cloudflare) is serving HTTP 403
{"error_code":2,"error_response":"Dmcaed"}
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlOPto
Android@lemmy.ml•GraphiteOS is an unofficial, unaffiliated fork of GrapheneOS packaged as a Generic System Image (GSI) for Project Treble devices
1·3 days agoAre there tradeoffs?
there are many, and the README lists far more now than it did 10 days ago when I first posted this.
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlOPto
Android@lemmy.ml•GraphiteOS is an unofficial, unaffiliated fork of GrapheneOS packaged as a Generic System Image (GSI) for Project Treble devices
1·4 days agoit’s for devices which Graphene doesn’t support
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why do both Northern Ireland & Scotland print their own bank notes?English
10·10 days agoWait until you hear about the Alderney pound, Manx pound, Jersey pound, Guernsey pound, Falkland Islands pound, Gibraltar pound, Saint Helena pound, …
which ones are accepted where is... complicated:
from wikipedia:
Throughout the UK, £1 and £2 coins are legal tender for any amount, with the other coins being legal tender only for limited amounts. Bank of England notes are legal tender for any amount in England and Wales, but not in Scotland or Northern Ireland.
[…]
Bank of England, Scottish, Northern Irish, Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Gibraltar, and Falkland banknotes may be offered anywhere in the UK, although there is no obligation to accept them as a means of payment, and acceptance varies. For example, merchants in England generally accept Scottish and Northern Irish notes, but some unfamiliar with them may reject them.[142] However, Scottish and Northern Irish notes both tend to be accepted in Scotland and Northern Ireland, respectively. Merchants in England generally do not accept Jersey, Guernsey, Manx, Gibraltarian, and Falkland notes but Manx notes are generally accepted in Northern Ireland.[143] Bank of England notes are generally accepted in the Falklands and Gibraltar, but for example, Scottish and Northern Irish notes are not.[144] Since all of the notes are denominated in sterling, banks will exchange them for locally issued notes at face value,[145][failed verification] though some in the UK have had trouble exchanging Falkland Islands notes.[146]
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Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
World News@lemmy.ml•White House Knew About Pakistan’s Cease-Fire Post on X Before It Was SentEnglish
4·10 days agothe edit history on Shehbaz Sharif’s tweet shows that it began with “Draft - Pakistan’s PM Message on X” when it was first posted 😭
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlOPto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What actually is the 10-point proposal from Iran which Trump said is a "workable basis on which to negotiate"?English
12·11 days agoYou asked a question and answered it yourself?
I posted the 10 points according to one source and then said
There are many varied but similar versions of these points circulating elsewhere
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
DeGoogle Yourself@lemmy.ml•Looks like Google is making life more difficult for deGooglersEnglish
2·13 days agoYou mean GrapheneOS? Or is GraphiteOS a different OS I’ve not heard of?
two years later: GraphiteOS is now a thing that exists https://github.com/cawilliamson/treble_graphiteos
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
World News@lemmy.ml•There Are Now Over 50,000 American Troops in the MideastEnglish
71·20 days agoThe US military takes enlistees at 17 and a half years old. Usually from poor families.
I believe the US lets people enlist at 17 (with parental consent) but they don’t deploy them to combat before they’re 18.
I encourage you to you watch this movie, btw.
And see also:
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
World News@lemmy.ml•Russia is sending upgraded drones used in the Ukraine war to Iran, officials say
101·20 days agoYou’re ignoring the fact your article also doesn’t provide source
Which article are you saying doesn’t provide a source? I see only two articles linked in this thread and they both refer to several sources 🤔
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
World News@lemmy.ml•Russia is sending upgraded drones used in the Ukraine war to Iran, officials sayEnglish
121·20 days agoI am sincerely baffled as to what your perspective about this story is.
Do you believe that EU and US officials are spreading Russian propaganda via the Associated Press about Russia supplying drones to Iran (which, as you said earlier, you believe they do not in fact have the ability to manufacture) and therefore Russia’s denial is actually true but also part of their cunning plan to deceive us?
Or what?
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
World News@lemmy.ml•Russia is sending upgraded drones used in the Ukraine war to Iran, officials sayEnglish
121·20 days agoOf course Russia denys it
But… just a few hours ago didn’t you deny it too? 🤔
(“No they aren’t” was your first comment in this thread)
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
World News@lemmy.ml•Russia is sending upgraded drones used in the Ukraine war to Iran, officials sayEnglish
181·20 days agoNo they aren’t, Russia wouldn’t have purchased thousands of Iranian drones if they could produce them domestically.
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Russia put out propaganda
The original link in this post is to an article by the Associated Press (syndicated on a website owned by Bell Canada) and it cites “U.S. and European officials” as its primary source to support the claim made in the headline that Russia is supplying drones to Iran.
I’m curious: did you call this Russian propaganda after reading only the headline, without actually realizing who is saying what here?
Correct me if I’m wrong but I suspect that after you read the article and see that Russia in fact denies sending drones to Iran (and says the seven trucks they just sent have food and medical supplies) you’ll probably change your mind and decide that they probably are in fact sending drones.
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why do some people (i.e. white conservatives) think all Spanish speakers (especially native Spanish speakers) are Mexican?English
8·23 days agofor one thing, you’re in a country where this once happened 🤦
I am a white European Spanish woman
Race is a social construct and in the eyes of your friend’s racist dad you are apparently not white (even if he might have classified you as white if he had only your appearance to go by and hadn’t seen your name).
Here are a few somewhat relevant wikipedia articles:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_whiteness_in_the_United_States
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States_census
and also, outside the US:
did an LLM get involved in your dictionary somehow? (why are four of these six definitions very minor rephrasings of each other?)
Fwiw, the American Heritage Dictionary has only one definition; the other two are in wiktionary (which has citations for both).
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto
AskUSA@discuss.online•Is jury duty mandatory for all US citizens?English
1·23 days agothe first rule of jury nullification is not to talk about jury nullification during the jury selection process




















Psy went from singing “Kill those fucking Yankees who have been torturing Iraqi captives / Kill those fucking Yankees who ordered them to torture / Kill their daughters, mothers, daughters-in-law and fathers / Kill them all slowly and painfully” to having UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hail him as “a force for world peace” (and do his horse dance with him at a press conference) 😂